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• Genesis 42Bible

  During a famine, Joseph's ten older brothers travel to Egypt to buy grain and bow before Joseph, who has become governor of the land. Accused of being spies, they return home, leaving Simeon behind as a hostage.

• Exodus 1Bible

  In Exodus 1, a new king who did not know Joseph oppresses the children of Israel, who have multiplied greatly in Egypt, subjecting them to forced labor and ordering that Hebrew baby boys be killed. The midwives fear God and refuse to carry out the order.

• Exodus 12Bible

  Exodus 12 records the tenth plague, the death of the firstborn of Egypt; the institution of the ordinances of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and Israel's departure from Raamses and exodus from Egypt.

• Exodus 14Bible

  Exodus 14 is the chapter in which the children of Israel, encamped by the sea, are pursued by Pharaoh's army. When Moses stretches out his hand, the sea divides, Israel crosses on dry ground, and the pursuing Egyptian army is covered by the waters.

• Exodus 15Bible

  Exodus 15 contains the song of deliverance sung by Moses and Israel after crossing the Red Sea, Miriam's answering song, and the opening scene of the wilderness journey, in which the bitter water of Marah is made sweet and the people arrive at Elim.

• Exodus 26Bible

  Exodus 26 is the chapter in which God instructs Moses on the construction of the tabernacle itself. It describes how to make the multiple layers of curtains and the skin coverings, the boards of shittim wood with their silver sockets, the veil dividing the holy place from the most holy place, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle.

• Exodus 23Bible

  Exodus 23 is the final chapter of the Book of the Covenant. It sets out ordinances on just judgment and on the treatment of enemies and strangers, establishes the sabbatical year and the Sabbath, and prescribes three annual feasts. It closes with God's promise to send an angel to lead Israel into Canaan.

• Numbers 1Bible

  Numbers 1 records how, in the second year after the Exodus, Moses and Aaron numbered the men of the twelve tribes in the wilderness of Sinai who were twenty years old and upward and able to go to war, arriving at a total of 603,550. The tribe of Levi was excluded from the count and given charge of the tabernacle.

• Deuteronomy 16Bible

  Deuteronomy 16 sets out the laws for keeping Israel's three pilgrimage feasts: Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. It also commands the appointment of judges who are to judge justly and forbids setting up Asherah poles or sacred pillars.

• Deuteronomy 27Bible

  Deuteronomy 27 records Moses' instructions that, after entering Canaan, Israel is to set up on Mount Ebal stones inscribed with the law, together with an altar. It then directs six tribes to stand on Mount Gerizim and six on Mount Ebal, and commands the people to answer "Amen" to each of twelve curses proclaimed by the Levites.

• Joshua 3Bible

  Joshua 3 records the Israelites crossing the Jordan River behind the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant. When the priests' feet were dipped in the water, the flowing river stopped, and the people crossed over on dry ground.

• Joshua 19Bible

  Joshua 19 records how lots were cast at Shiloh to assign the inheritances of six tribes: Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan. The chapter concludes the division of the land with the gift of Timnath-serah to Joshua.

• Judges 6Bible

  Judges 6 tells how, while Israel lay under Midianite oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared and called Gideon as a deliverer, and how Gideon tore down his father's altar of Baal and twice sought a sign with a fleece.

• Judges 8Bible

  Judges 8 recounts how Gideon relentlessly pursues and captures Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian. It goes on to tell how, after he declines the kingship, the golden ephod he makes becomes a snare, and how Israel returns to the worship of Baal after his death.

• Judges 14Bible

  Judges 14 recounts how Samson, while seeking to marry a Philistine woman, tears apart a lion with his bare hands, poses a riddle at his wedding feast, loses the wager after his wife reveals the answer, and then strikes down thirty men of Ashkelon.

• Judges 21Bible

  Judges 21, the final chapter of the Book of Judges, records how Israel kept the tribe of Benjamin from being cut off by striking Jabesh-gilead and bringing back four hundred virgins, and then by allowing the Benjamites to seize women during the feast at Shiloh.

• 1 Samuel 3Bible

  1 Samuel 3 is the chapter in which the LORD calls the boy Samuel, who is growing up at the tabernacle in Shiloh, four times during the night and announces judgment on the house of Eli. After these events, Samuel becomes known throughout all Israel as a prophet.

• 1 Samuel 8Bible

  1 Samuel 8 is the chapter in which, after Samuel's sons become corrupt, the elders of Israel demand a king "like all the nations." Samuel warns them about the manner of the king, and the LORD then grants their request.

• 1 Samuel 23Bible

  1 Samuel 23 is the chapter in which David, pursued by Saul, delivers Keilah from the Philistines, makes a covenant with Jonathan in the wilderness of Ziph, and narrowly escapes capture by Saul in the wilderness of Maon.

• 1 Kings 7Bible

  First Kings 7 records Solomon's thirteen-year construction of his own palace and the work of Hiram, a craftsman from Tyre, who made the temple furnishings, including the bronze pillars Jachin and Boaz, the bronze sea, and the stands and lavers.